Title :
Info*Warder: group support software for tackling the ownership and political aspects of information systems project proposals
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., New South Wales Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
It is well known that information systems development projects can be and often are the subject of political dispute within organizations. Indeed many project failures are caused not by technical problems but rather organizational ones. This paper briefly describes a theoretical model of the ownership and political issues surrounding information systems development and then, in more detail, a group support software package called Info*Warder that is being developed to try to identify in which areas ownership and political difficulties might surface at the project proposal stage
Keywords :
computer aided software engineering; groupware; industrial property; information systems; politics; project management; software development management; software packages; Info*Warder; group support software package; information systems project proposals; organizations; ownership; political aspects; project failure; Books; Centralized control; Collaborative software; Computer science; Control systems; Educational institutions; Information management; Information systems; Management information systems; Proposals; Software packages; Surveillance;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kohala Coast, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8255-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1998.654807
